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This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / No sinks
NYC to limit fast food restaurants
Travel – City COuncil member wants to limit the number of fast food restaurants within a given area, and offer incentives for healthy options for customers.
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(news.bbc.co.uk)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 12, 2006 03:32pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks
Kellogg's is going big in China
Travel – Though Asian cultures typically don't eat cold cereal for breakfast, Kellogg's is planning to double its sales in China by 2010, and will tailor the cereals to local tastes.
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(news.bbc.co.uk)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 08, 2006 01:37pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
Cook's Country rates canned tuna
Travel – Canned tuna? Those new-fangled pouches? Starkist? Chicken of the Sea? Bumblebee? Cook's Country taste tests them and picks the best.
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(slashfood.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 08, 2006 01:31pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / 1 sink
Amy Sedaris likes double strength vanilla for her cupcakes
Celebrities – Actress/writer Amy Sedaris has a "side thing" of baking and selling cupcakes at NYC's Gourmet Garage. She offers her recipe, and also mentions that she would like to try making them with double-strength vanilla, which she hadn't heard of before.
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(topix.net)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 06, 2006 03:57am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 47 votes / No sinks
Everything you need to know about bottled water
Travel – Why do Americans insist on drinking bottled water? Is bottled water safer than tap water? Does it taste better? Are the "enhanced" waters healthier?
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(washingtonpost.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 04, 2006 11:51am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 22 votes / 1 sink
How to read a nutrition label
Travel – The FDA has a comprehensive guide on how to read a nutrition label, with everything from serving sizes to calorie/nutrition content/recommended daily mins and maxes for foods, fats, calories and vitamins
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(cfsan.fda.gov)
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Voted for on July 04, 2006 11:26am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 12 votes / 1 sink
Barbecue belt keeps you ready at the grill
Travel – It's a belt that's got everything in it that you need while you're standing at the grill - sauces, marinades, scissors, and I suspect you'd want to add a basting brush, tongs, and of courrse, a spray bottle.
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(slashfood.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on July 04, 2006 11:19am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
Amateur Gourmet gives his personal Cookbook Awards
Travel – Adam, the Amateur Gourmet, gives out his personal Cookbook Awards for books that he has tried and tested in his extensive collection. The awards are cute, but the descriptions of why they won the award are what make his post pretty informative.
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(amateurgourmet.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on June 21, 2006 02:45pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
A guide to menu-speak
Travel – Amuse-bouche. Guanciale. Kurobota. The words sound foreign because most of them are derived from foreign languages like French, Italian, and Japanese. This short guide defines some of the words that appear on menus.
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(seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on June 07, 2006 12:39pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 17 votes / No sinks
Consumer Reports does their own testing on canned tuna
Travel – FDA doesn\'t warn consumers about mercury levels in canned tuna because they believe there isn\'t any. Consumer Reports did their own testing and find that that isn\'t the case. They answer 10 crucial questions and recommend alternatives with little or no mercury risk.
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(consumerreports.org)
Submitted and
Voted for on June 06, 2006 08:45pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / 1 sink
Food Philosophy interviews Thomas Keller
Travel – So you might not have the time and tenacity to get a reservation at Thomas Keller\'s French Laundry or Per Se, but you certainly can listen to a Podcast of him talking about celebrity chefs, local and seasonal cuisine, and his life as a chef-jet-setter.
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(gildedfork.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on June 06, 2006 07:46pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks
Jamba Juice has a secret menu
Travel – Lots of restaurants have "secret" menus (like In N Out's "Animal Style"), but who knew that even Jamba Juice had one? Their secret menu items are mostly concoctions that they wouldn't really be able to sell as a health food/beverage store, like White Gummi Bears.
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(mightyfoods.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on June 06, 2006 07:37pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks
Food & Wine picks top 25 cookbooks
Travel – The cookbooks are grouped into 6 categories - some of the ho-hum suspects like \"showcases\" from celebrity chefs Batali, Flay, and de Laurentiis, but some good ones like Mango & Curry Leaves and Eating Korean.
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(foodandwine.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on June 06, 2006 12:46pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks
Is SF better than NY for food?
Travel – SF Chronicle restaurant critic poses the question of whether NY is better than SF for food, answering that SF is obviously better for more sophisticated and adventurous palates.
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(sfgate.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on June 05, 2006 11:41pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
Kitchen myths exposed
Travel – Does baking soda really absorb nasty fridge odors? Does all the alcohol really \"cook\" away? A lot of old wives\' tales and kitchen myths exposed, most of them all false.
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(pgacon.com)
Submitted and
Voted for on June 05, 2006 10:02pm
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